Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Beach Art!
I just wanted to share these photographs of Earthscape Art (beach art) by artist Andres Amador. Look out for other artwork by Andres Amador including his crazy light art.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Discount Football Tickets
Finding Discount Football Tickets
Introduction
The recession has affected football clubs and football fans alike, with clubs juggling their finances to stay afloat and freezing or reducing ticket prices to keep up attendances and fans facing increased prices for travel and other match day expenses in already adverse economic circumstances. Many football fans are, however, more than willing to find the cash needed to follow their favourite clubs, despite the need to tighten their belts elsewhere.
Discount Football Tickets
It is a sad fact that discount football tickets are rarely available from online ticket brokers, or from ticket touts that you may meet, in person, outside a football ground on the day of a match. Neither brokers nor touts receive any special treatment, or markdown, from principal ticket sellers and must therefore work hard to obtain tickets for the best seats. The end result is that the tickets they offer are priced significantly above their face value. Furthermore, buying football tickets from any unauthorised agent can be a risky business with counterfeit tickets or, in the worst case, no tickets at all a real possibility. Indeed, over 100 websites illegally selling tickets to Premier League football matches were recently shut down following a police operation. You may be able to find discount vouchers on the Internet, from time to time, for money off tickets offered by ticket brokers, but the discount is likely to be less than the markup on the tickets in the first place.
If you want an idea of what is and what isn`t, a good deal on football match tickets, look at the website of the football club in question. This will list the face value of match tickets and authorised agents from which they can be bought, legitimately, if necessary. One place where it may be possible to find legitimately discounted football tickets is on the online auction site, eBay, which has a large section devoted to second hand tickets, including football match tickets. If you can find the tickets you want in this way, you can also check the feedback left by other buyers to determine the integrity of the seller. Another possibility is a specialist online marketplace, where football fans can buy, sell or exchange match tickets.
Aside from saving money on the cost of match tickets, themselves, there is any number of websites that allow you to receive cashback on other costs, such as car hire, rail, air, or ferry, tickets and accommodation, that you incur as a result of travelling to and from, football matches. Individual savings may seem small, but these soon mount up over the course of a season and could make the difference between you being at that vital away game, or even at Wembley, at the end of the season, or not.
Introduction
The recession has affected football clubs and football fans alike, with clubs juggling their finances to stay afloat and freezing or reducing ticket prices to keep up attendances and fans facing increased prices for travel and other match day expenses in already adverse economic circumstances. Many football fans are, however, more than willing to find the cash needed to follow their favourite clubs, despite the need to tighten their belts elsewhere.
Discount Football Tickets
It is a sad fact that discount football tickets are rarely available from online ticket brokers, or from ticket touts that you may meet, in person, outside a football ground on the day of a match. Neither brokers nor touts receive any special treatment, or markdown, from principal ticket sellers and must therefore work hard to obtain tickets for the best seats. The end result is that the tickets they offer are priced significantly above their face value. Furthermore, buying football tickets from any unauthorised agent can be a risky business with counterfeit tickets or, in the worst case, no tickets at all a real possibility. Indeed, over 100 websites illegally selling tickets to Premier League football matches were recently shut down following a police operation. You may be able to find discount vouchers on the Internet, from time to time, for money off tickets offered by ticket brokers, but the discount is likely to be less than the markup on the tickets in the first place.
If you want an idea of what is and what isn`t, a good deal on football match tickets, look at the website of the football club in question. This will list the face value of match tickets and authorised agents from which they can be bought, legitimately, if necessary. One place where it may be possible to find legitimately discounted football tickets is on the online auction site, eBay, which has a large section devoted to second hand tickets, including football match tickets. If you can find the tickets you want in this way, you can also check the feedback left by other buyers to determine the integrity of the seller. Another possibility is a specialist online marketplace, where football fans can buy, sell or exchange match tickets.
Aside from saving money on the cost of match tickets, themselves, there is any number of websites that allow you to receive cashback on other costs, such as car hire, rail, air, or ferry, tickets and accommodation, that you incur as a result of travelling to and from, football matches. Individual savings may seem small, but these soon mount up over the course of a season and could make the difference between you being at that vital away game, or even at Wembley, at the end of the season, or not.
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
FANTASY FOOTBALL IS BACK!
Fantasy Football is back - and so is our league...
...and it's going to be bigger and better than ever before...
100% FREE
Play for free and win up to £10,000. Use an imaginary budget of £55m to select 11 players from Premier League clubs and score points based on their real-life performances in league matches. Compete for prizes, compete against your friends, in the quest for managerial supremacy!
This year (09/10) our league is called the "Spectrum A League"...
Visit this link... http://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/ and find the "Register Free!" button, then when you've chosen your winning team, on your "My Team" page scroll down to the bottom and find the "Enter New League" button and where it asks for a League PIN enter the following, 15148 - then I'll accept you in the league and the battle is on....
For those of you wanting to put a bet on the following season here are my tips for each of the football leagues...
Premiership - Chelsea (outright)
Championship - Nottingham Forest (each-way)
League 1 - Charlton (each-way)
League 2 - Shrewsbury (each-way)
...and Paddy Power are offering a cash-match £10 free bet to all new customers so get your bets on now before the season kicks off...
...and it's going to be bigger and better than ever before...
100% FREE
Play for free and win up to £10,000. Use an imaginary budget of £55m to select 11 players from Premier League clubs and score points based on their real-life performances in league matches. Compete for prizes, compete against your friends, in the quest for managerial supremacy!
This year (09/10) our league is called the "Spectrum A League"...
Visit this link... http://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/ and find the "Register Free!" button, then when you've chosen your winning team, on your "My Team" page scroll down to the bottom and find the "Enter New League" button and where it asks for a League PIN enter the following, 15148 - then I'll accept you in the league and the battle is on....
For those of you wanting to put a bet on the following season here are my tips for each of the football leagues...
Premiership - Chelsea (outright)
Championship - Nottingham Forest (each-way)
League 1 - Charlton (each-way)
League 2 - Shrewsbury (each-way)
...and Paddy Power are offering a cash-match £10 free bet to all new customers so get your bets on now before the season kicks off...
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Absolute Classic!
From the Bristol Evening Post:
Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with the ticket machine. The charges are £1 per car and £5 per coach.
On Monday 1 June he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.
The Council said "That car park is your responsibility." The Zoo said "The attendant was employed by the City Council... wasn't he?" The Council said "What attendant?"
Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking daily the car park fees amounting to about £400 per day for the last 23 years...!
Total sum just short £2.9 million.
Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with the ticket machine. The charges are £1 per car and £5 per coach.
On Monday 1 June he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.
The Council said "That car park is your responsibility." The Zoo said "The attendant was employed by the City Council... wasn't he?" The Council said "What attendant?"
Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking daily the car park fees amounting to about £400 per day for the last 23 years...!
Total sum just short £2.9 million.
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Transformers...
Who's looking forward to the new Transformers film? It looks to me like it's going to be far better than the first one. Optimus Prime rocks! Ok, so we need something to keep us going right, and because I like to offer my advise on poker, casinos, and gaming, and because the kind souls behind Paddy Power just gave me £10 to try out the new official transformers slots - which also rock!... I thought I'd direct you to them so you could see for yourself. For anyone who isn't already a Paddy Power customer, if you decide to deposit any cash they will double it for you! Just click the banner...
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Petrol On The Up Again!!!
Petrol prices have been steadily on the up again and they are nearly at £1 again for Unleaded - the problem is they are expected to hit £1.15 over the next few weeks and unless you're an MP you can't get anyone else to pay for it so what can we do? Everybody needs to show their concern in their own way (because I don't want to be responsible for a riot) but hopefully they'll be strikes, blockades, protests, that sort of thing again like when the prices went out of control last time, and hopefully this time the "bent" leaders of the country will do something about it - how about paying back the expenses they've claimed?... that will keep it under £1!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Newcastle For Promotion
Obi Martins yesterday said he wanted to stay at the club and I know he's had his injuries this year but next season, if he stays, expect Newcastle to romp back to the Premiership. If there's one bet worth having then it's Newcastle for promotion. Current odds are only around 4-1 but snap them up now - no need for an each way bet. My tip is at least 10 points clear at the top.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
